The Dakota 38: A Documentary Analysis: The Dakota 38

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The documentary I decided to analysis is the Dakota 38. I decided to go with this one because I felt a better emotional connection with the story they told. It made me feel like I was part of the tribe in the 1860s. While having an emotional connection, there are also several items that I learned from class that I am able to contribute to the movie at some points. Being Native American, I never really knew all the terrible atrocities that were brought upon them for no reason. Learning about this history will help progress the prevention of this ever happening, again. We need to be able to learn from our own mistakes and show future generations what forgiving and remembering is. It was a powerful documentary that brought together after selected …show more content…

The Native Americans were promised a large amount of private land for their families to live on forever in peace. As time went on throughout the years, Native Americans started to see their land shrink by acres. This was unsettling to many of the Natives and would start to raise problems with the white soldiers. By having the Promised Land taken away from them it would only start to add fuel to the fire before the Indians would attack back. Taking of land was of several items that would start to enrage the Indians. The next item that I took away from class was how the U.S. would continuously steal from the Native people and made it evident in the video. The U.S. would continually steal Native American money for their benefit. This would not help the Indians moving forward in trying to provide a life for their family. U.S. agents would withhold Native Americans money that was given to them from their federal government. It was the payment for the land that U.S. bought from them. The United States (US) would continue to make numerous treaty violations by having to make Natives make payments to Indian agents who would use the money for what they want. With all of this occurring, it caused an increased number of families to stricken of hunger and adds to the never-ending hardship among the Dakota tribes in Minnesota. This would all boil over to having the Great Sioux Revolt that would trigger the infamous Dakota

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